The blizzard has been falling.

The temperature also drops daily with the passage of time.

People try to minimize going out if necessary.

It's really too cold outside.

The temperature difference between indoor and outdoors reaches 60 degrees.

It is minus forty degrees outside and over twenty degrees indoors.

Trading market.

Commercial area, No. 13 door sign, official clinic of trading market.

A group of people ran in, and one of them was carrying a man on his back.

"Hurry, save him." As soon as the man came in, he shouted to the nurse inside.

The nurse on duty, Zhang Shuzhen, saw the group of people coming in, and also saw the man dying on his back.

He immediately stood up and rushed over with several nurses.

The nurses pushed a first aid bed at the same time.

Zhang Shuzhen asked while putting the unconscious man on the emergency bed:

"What's going on?"

The man carrying him in quickly replied:

"We are from the snow shoveling team. My second brother suddenly fainted and fell into a coma while shoveling snow. Maybe he was fainted from the cold. Hurry up and save him."

Zhang Shuzhen was about to continue asking, but Bai Yongzhang came over behind her.

He spread the eyelids of the man lying on the hospital bed and frowned.

Combined with the cold limbs, white lips and tongue, and a blue-purple face, you can tell at a glance that it has lost its temperature. Now it seems that the breathing is weak and you may die at any time.

Saving people is like putting out a fire. Bai Yongzhang said to Zhang Shuzhen without hesitation:

"He lost his temperature, so hurry up and push him into the greenhouse."

He reached into the man's neck, which was wet and cold.

"Take off all his clothes, and the clothes in him are soaked. Change him into dry clothes and give vital signs tests, including blood pressure, blood oxygen, pulse, heart rate, etc...."

"Yes." Zhang Shuzhen nodded when she heard this and quickly pushed the man on the move bed with other nurses.

Bai Yongzhang asked to the group of people standing next to him:

"What did you do just now?"

One of the gang replied:

"We are from the snow shoveling team. We have been working from last night until now. When Ah Feng was shoveling snow, he accidentally fell into the snow pit..."

After listening to what he said, Bai Yongzhang thought about it and said:

"Okay, I probably understand. I just saw it. He just lost temperature. There is no big problem. You can go there to pay the fee first."

"Okay, thank you." The group quickly thanked and then went to the payment desk.

Looking at their left behind, Bai sighed.

Recently, more and more patients with this kind of temperature loss have become more and more. The temperature outside is too low, with a temperature of more than minus 40 degrees Celsius. If people work in this cold and low temperature, they will produce a lot of sweat if they wear too thick.

Some clothes have poor sweating performance and it is extremely uncomfortable to accumulate sweat in their clothes.

Sometimes, if the neck is not protected tightly, the snow will slid from blowing into the person's neck and slid onto the back.

Because the blizzard is too big, it is also very troublesome for people to get wet with snow.

For many survivors, their cold-resistance equipment is not good enough and they will always encounter one or another problem.

Working in a blizzard for seven or eight hours. Over time, you may catch a cold at a mild time and lose temperature at worst.

But this is also impossible. Someone must shovel and remove snow in the trading market or even in the buffer city, otherwise the entire oil city will not be able to pass normally.

If the traffic cannot be normal, the materials cannot be transported.

Survivors stay in residential buildings and cannot get out of the business district to buy food.

Moreover, the shop No. 2 specializes in selling corn cakes. Although it will stock up on some raw materials for grain, it is definitely not much. It usually only stocks up for three or four days.

Every few days, they have to go to the oil city granary to make corn cakes.

"I hope you can stop the snow soon..." Bai Yongzhang turned around and looked at the snowflakes falling outside, and thought to himself.

.........

Time is like water.

In a blink of an eye, the blizzard fell for eighteen days.

During these eighteen days, they have encountered problems such as the water pipes being frozen and exploded, and have encountered problems such as frostbite by outdoor workers.

But they solved it one by one and took it over.

They used gasoline to cushion the snow outside the city and were burned five times, and the snow was higher and higher every time.

After the last burning, the ice layer reached 5.5 meters high, only three meters from the top of the wall.

In addition, the thickness of snow in the distance reached nearly ten meters high.

Such high snow is still the result of collapse and compaction on its own.

The entire oil city seems to be built in a basin.

In addition, during this period, the number of people applying for low-interest loans officially proposed by the Oil City has increased.

However, those who apply for low-interest loans must have collateral of corresponding value.

If the extremely poor survivors who cannot provide collateral will also give them a way out.

Sign a work agreement to pay off their debts through work.

Let them go to some more dangerous places to shovel and remove snow.

These days, due to the low outdoor temperature, many people are frostbite.

Although you can earn points for snow removal, you have to endure the extreme cold to earn.

However, those who signed a work agreement and loaned money will not be given any points to them, but will only give them the most basic benefits of two tortillas per day.

All the remaining 0.5 points are used to repay the loan and interest.

For survivors who have just entered the trading market, they have no points, no reserved food, and are desperate and can only accept it.

Boiler heating has fully covered most residential areas.

There are several buildings in Area C where some of the lowest poverty survivors live.

These people can't even pay the heating fee, and they can't even afford the rent.

Some people cannot participate in snow removal because of their disability.

Some people are too lazy and don't want to go out to work.

Some people are too young or too old to earn points.

For this group of people, Oil City has launched a series of activities to keep them alive as much as possible.

For children under 10 years old and elderly people over 65 years old, free housing and heating supply are provided.

And children under the age of 10 need to sign a long-term loan agreement, which can be repaid after five years, and a tortilla will be distributed to them for free every day.

This is actually equivalent to a contract to sell one's body.

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For groups with physical disabilities, Petroleum City also gave them opportunities.

Identify survivors of physical disabilities, assign them to the boiler room to work, or do some manual work to earn points.

The number of people with disabilities is relatively small. After all, due to physical problems, they are not as surviving as normal survivors and have a lower ability to survive.

Those who can survive have some technical foundation or other skills at hand.

As for those kinds of hands and feet, there is no problem. The survivors who are purely because of laziness, and the Oil City has not spoiled them.

He was starved to death and froze to death and was directly taken to the incineration plant, and the body was incinerated to generate electricity.

Because the snowstorm is too big, the area of ​​the oil city is relatively small, and the pressure of shoveling snow is not that high.

However, the pressure on snow shoveling in the buffer city and trading market is very high.

In addition, because the outdoor temperature reached minus 40 degrees Celsius, people could not stay outside for too long to work, so the working hours were modified.

Four shifts are implemented, twenty-four hours a day, and six hours a day.

A shift to the buffer city requires 2,000 on duty personnel, and 8,000 people in four shifts.

In the buffer city and the snow removal crowd in the trading market, the first shift reached 4,000 and the fourth shift reached 16,000.
To be continued...